Crowdsourcing

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  Eiffel Tower Older Than The Statue of Liberty? Ask TrueKnowledge.com
  Old School A.I. Meets Crowdsourced Expertise
  by knowlengr / on Oct 13, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Crowdsourcing”

• TypeAttack - Human Computation Gaming to Improve OCR Correction of Non-Digital Born Content

  
  Veni Vidi Luxi — Authority: 100
  Social computing can be fun too when mixed with human computation gaming and help sort some serious operational issues. As an example is a link to a presentation of a pilot to test human computation gaming to improve OCR correction of non-digital born content, in Singapore via Facebook. The game developped by ...
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• Cloud Congress

  
  Cause Global: Social Media for Social Change — Authority: 117
  The federal government is just beginning to use social media to talk to citizens. What’s needed now, says Web entrepreneur Anil Dash , is a way for government to use social media to listen. Expert Labs —one of the more intriguing ideas to emerge from this past week’s Web 2.0 Expo in Manhattan—is a new ...
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• Help needed to bust ridiculous podcasting patent

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 887
  A (crazy, bullshit) patent has been granted on podcasting, and EFF has vowed to kill it, but they need your help: The Volomedia patent covers "a method for providing episodic media." Its a ridiculously broad patent, covering something that many folks have been doing for many years. Worse, it could create a whole new ...
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• Listen to ‘World’s First Twitter Album’

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 737
  Each song on this Twitter-able album is represented by 140 characters of code at most Anyone with half a brain can paste a song onto Twitter by pasting in the URL for a song. For some, that isn’t enough — they figured out how to paste entire songs into the 140-character Twitter window. A free, open source ...
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• Crowdsourced Topic

  
  Jeff Cutler's Bowl of Cheese — Authority: 100
  Chris Brogan talks frequently about maintaining momentum and presence in the blogosphere. OK, those might not be his words, but his point is that remaining in front of people is important as long as you have something to share. It helps build brand awareness, it creates some organic education and community, and it ...
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• Humans as Sensors: Using Mobile Phones to Map a City’s Noise Levels

  
  MobileBehavior — Authority: 124
  Mobile crowdsourcing is being used to construct traffic maps and forecast crowd flow , now it is also beginning to map noise levels within cities around the world. NoiseTube provides a mobile application that lets users capture the surrounding ambiance through a built-in microphone, and if the phone supports it, ...
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• NASA Invites You to “Be a Martian” & Explore the Red Planet’s Terrain

  
  80beats — Authority: 649
  With NASA’s manned space flight program in tumult , it’s an open question when/if human boots will tramp on Martian soil. But the space agency has provided a virtual way for humans to explore the red planet, with its new “ Be a Martian ” program. The online project, a collaboration between NASA and ...
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• Get Your Ass To Mars

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 753
  NASA invites you to Be A Martian Faced with the mountain of data gathered by Mars missions over the last 30 years, NASA has decided to go down the crowdsourcing route in their attempt to construct a complete map of the planets surface, presenting it as an online game in which players earn points for counting ...
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• Twitter Link Roundup #21 - Design, Small Business, Social Media And More

  
  crowdSPRING Blog — Authority: 469
  Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve ...
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• Overeating

  
  It Is What It Is — Authority: 129
  In looking at over-rated food, today for the first time It Is What It Is has utilised crowd-sourcing ! Thats where your favourite genius writers ask all their fans to help them write whatever theyve been paid to write. Its not cheeky, or a rip-off, its interactive and Web 2.0 and very modern and groovy. I asked ...
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• Disasters! (Just in time for 2012)

  
  NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org blogs — Authority: 517
  It’s no coincidence that 2012 (the latest in a long line of disaster movies from director Roland Emmerich)  is timed to release during one of the worst weather months North Americans experience. Yep, November is storm season, bringing with it power outages, floods, snow, wind – and that’s only on the west ...
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• Crowdsourcing Annotation

  
  The Lousy Linguist — Authority: 107
  (image from Phrase Detectives ) Thanks to the LingPipe blog here , I discovered an online annotation game called Phrase Detectives designed to encourage people to contribute to the creation of hand annotated corpora by making a game of it. It was created by the University of Essex, School of Computer Science and ...
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• An Era of Open Source (Part Two)

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 444
  The Bloggomist: Design in the Blood Technology Opinion To suggest that design should become more open and transparent isn’t to say that it should be an exclusively communal effort. Things run afoul with too many cooks in the kitchen, no matter what the industry. Even from within a company opinions from people ...
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• NASA and Microsoft launch citizen science website.

  
  Science Cheerleader — Authority: 131
  From the NASA press release: Now anyone with a Web browser can become a Martian explorer. That’s because NASA is launching a new citizen-science Web site, called “Be a Martian,” that gives people a chance to view hundreds of thousands of images gathered over decades of exploration on the Red Planet. The site ...
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• Good Old Fashioned Personal Branding

  
  crowdSPRING Blog — Authority: 469
  It seems these days that it’s almost impossible to stay alive as a new shark diving into an ocean of bigger sharks unless you’re Kanye West or Lady Gaga. As I thought about that I realized they had one thing in common, they had branded themselves, which seems to be the only way to get people to remember you these ...
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• Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise

  
  Team Think — Authority: 410
  Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here’s what’s being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social ...
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• PublicEarth: The Wikipedia of Consumer Mapping Applications

  
  got geoint? — Authority: 472
  It seems that the consumer-driven nature of Web 2.0 is permeating everything these days. Twitter is valued at $1.1 billion. Wikipedia has made encyclopedias go the way of the dinosaur. And, now next-generation online mapping applications are open and allow for users to input locations. One example is PublicEarth ...
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• How Last.fm fails to work for non-Western music

  
  i like patterns — Authority: 107
  While using Last.fm personalized radio rather extensively during the last day, I again noticed a problem of this service I had stumbled upon before. I had turned to Last.fm to listen to music rooted in Western Africa’s (and especially Mali’s) griot culture (if you by the way know a good novel influenced by ...
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• crowdsourcing music

  
  ViNT // Vision - Inspiration - Navigation - Trends — Authority: 148
  Just for fun…
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• Spot.us plans expansion beyond Bay Area

  
  Peter Bihr on Social Media, Web 2.0 & Digital Life [www.thewavingcat.com] — Authority: 456
  The Nieman Lab covers the planned expansion of Spot.Us , a really interesting and pioneering project in crowdsourced crowdfunded journalism. At this time, where everybody is discussing potential models for journalism to survive (or be funded), Spot.us takes an innovative approach. By the looks of this interview, ...
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